One Laptop Per Child scheme takes off in Pacific

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Updated June 15, 2009 20:22:21

The Marshall Islands have become the latest country to adopt scheme the One Laptop Per Child educational programme, which taking off in the Pacific. The OLPC hopes to supply every child in less developed countries with a high-tech laptop that's suitable for each country's climate. The laptops have been piloted in Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Presenter: Elizabeth Parkinson
Speaker: Ian Thomson, manager, Pacific Rural Internet Connectivity System and OLPC Oceania projects; Michael Hutak, regional director, OLPC Oceania; Rangan Srikhanta, executive director, OLPC Australia

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